NewPage plans 300 layoffs companywide

Ohio-based papermaker set to cut 300 positions companywide, make $20 million in non-personnel reductions, spokesman says

2:54 AM,
Feb. 20, 2013

The NewPage paper mill in Wisconsin Rapids. A local NewPage Corp. spokesman said Tuesday that the Miamisburg, Ohio-based papermaker plans to lay off about 300 of its 6,000 employees companywide. He would not disclose where the positions were being eliminated.

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One of central Wisconsin's largest employers is planning to lay off 300 people as part of a companywide reduction, a local spokesman for the Ohio-based papermaker said Tuesday.

NewPage Corp., which operates eight paper mills - including three in central Wisconsin, where it employs about 1,700 people - also will cut $20 million in nonpersonnel costs, local spokesman Cliff Bowers said. Declining demand in the paper industry led to the cost-cutting measures, he said.

The job reductions, which will be spread across all NewPage locations, including its eight mills and its research and ...